Japanese community started to remove 'official' title
I and Mr. nobunobu take a business trip nearly every
week this month. That's tough schedule. And it's the
cause which makes development stop. After we will
return from our business trip, we will release Beta 4
as the last release of this year. We already posted
the change log and Mr. ayumi prepared the release
news.
RC will be released next month. But, I have to go to
the development camp of my company from Dec 30th to
Jan 10th. Therefore, I can not touch XCube RC while
I'm in the camp. The dev team will clear incomplete
tasks as 'known issue'.
I don't have been able to develop XCube enough this
month. I had few hours to do it as well as all other
members. These days are final big test for the first
dev team. In this final process, we will do the
following:
- We will move the official project page to
sourceforge.net.
- We will make the dev team open under some
international conventions.
- We will delegate the community management to
hot users. Our opinion is that developers don't
need to be leader of the community.
Until now, we have needed Japanese closed dev team
for rapid development. But, we will be able to
explain Cube's concept through source code in the
near future. And, we will not need to discuss complex
subjects in English. In other words, we will become
able to finish closed team and Japanese team in the
same time.
Because many Japanese like better the power game than
open source development, our way will be discussed. I
think Japanese people have freedom to do the power
game. But, developers don't have any impositions to
join it. In other words, developers have freedom to
wish not to do the power game. Each freedom should be
respected.
And, they who love the power game should not get the
authority of the international project, just because
they are Japanese people. XOOPS Cube is not for
Japanese only. And, Japanese users are not special in
XOOPS Cube. But, I think this concept brings true
freedom to Japanese users at the last time.
xoopscube.org doesn't intervene in the administration
of each community. We want to be friend of French and
others, but we are not administrators in them.
xoopscube.org is not the centralism to control
others. Also Japanese community will get freedom.
If there are not hot users enough in Japan, XOOPS
Cube community in Japan will be death. If there are
hot users enough in Japan, XOOPS Cube community in
Japan will evolve under free sky.
All results will be guided by not developers'
impositions but users' zeal. I will receive any
results Japanese users will choose, even if it is
destruction.